Transcript 20080607_Contre_culture_pascal.pps

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What is culture?
“There are chiefly four axiomatic qualities of distinctions which distinguish
matured, normal men and women, from the sophists and empiricists in
general and the Martinists most emphatically.
This can be summarized as a series of four interdependent but respectively
distinct theses, as I do, as follows, now.
First, a normal representative of the human species is distinguished from
the beasts, by the capacity to distinguish objects of thought which
correspond to the existence of experimentally valid universal physical
principles, principles which exist beyond the reach of sense-perception as
such, but whose existence is susceptible of conclusive experimental proof.
The discovery and proof of these principles, first as hypotheses, and then
as experimental proof of principle, is achieved through the human mind's
unique capacity to recognize the footprint of anomalies in the ordering of
perceived events. The term "cognition" is properly restricted to references
to the process of discovery and proof of the principles which solve the
relevant anomalous paradoxes.
In the mathematical physics of Gauss, Abel, Dirichlet, Wilhelm Weber, and
Riemann, this defines the physical reality reflected as the complex domain.
The mastery of that acquired view of the physical reality corresponding to
the complex domain, has been the keystone for the educational selfdevelopment of the youth movement which I have sponsored.
“Second, in many cases, man is able to apply these efficient, universal,
but non-perceptible principles to the universe around us; that, to the effect
of increasing the relative potential population-density of the human
species, or of the particular culture which benefits from that practice. This
distinguishes the human species categorically, ecologically, from all other
living species.
This is the basis for my original definition of corresponding principles of a
science of physical economy, a practice of physical economy which I have
defined as Riemannian in essential form.
Third, the sustainable progress of society depends upon the transmission
of these discovered principles, both "horizontally" and "forward," through
induced replication of the relevant cognitive experience of replicatable
individual discovery by individuals. This process of combined transmission
and creation of ongoing new such discoveries, of both physical science
and Classical modes of artistic composition, is the proper referent for the
term "culture."
Fourth, the preceding three principles situate the mortal human individual
in such a way, that the mortal existence of each is implicitly immortal, not
as merely a living creature, but, rather, also as a cognitive being,
whose existence is a contributing feature of the continuity of the
culture, and of the human species in general. The images of the
greatest known scientific discoverers, Classical artists, heroes, and
statesmen of history, exemplify the sense of cognitive immortality
potentially available to each of us.
“They who realize this in their outlook and practice, live in a
simultaneity of eternity, within which they are immortal presences living
with us today. The true interest of the human individual, the only real
wellspring of true morality, is to dwell among those companions
forever, even after we were formally deceased, to prize, above all
other things, that principle of agape, as uttered by Plato's Socrates
and the Apostle Paul's I Corinthians 13. The true nature of man, and
the principle of agape so defined, are inseparable notions.”
Lyndon LaRouche, Religion and National Security: The Danger from Terrorist cults,
Fidelio Spring/Summer 2004.
1815 Vienna Congress:
The Romantic Era has begun
Madame de Stael
Emmanuel Kant
Geisteswissenchaft vs. Naturwissenchaft
What were the kings and oligarchs afraid of?
13 colonies had beaten up
a World Empire!
“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their
Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness.”
The Artist
“The dignity of Man into your
hands is given,
Protector be!
It sinks with you! With you it is
arisen!“
Schiller in Central Park,
New York
Romantic vs. Classical…
She Walks In Beauty
by Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She walks in beauty, like the
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
The Old Dream Comes Again To Me
by Heinrich Heine (1799-1856)
The old dream comes again to me:
With May-night stars above,
We two sat under the linden-tree
And swore eternal love.
Again and again we plighted troth,
We chattered, and laughed, and kissed;
To make me well remember my oath
You gave me a bite on the wrist.
O darling with the eyes serene,
And with the teeth so white!
The vows were proper to the scene,
Superfluous was the bite.
Bertrand Russell
“I think the subject which will be of
most importance politically is mass
psychology… Its importance has been
enormously increased by the growth
of modern methods of propaganda. Of
these the most influential is what is
called “education”. Religion plays a
part, though a diminishing one; the
press, the cinema, and the radio play
an increasing part… It may be hoped
that in time anybody will be able to
persuade anybody of anything if he
can catch the patient young and is
provided by the State with money and
equipment.”
The Impact of Science on Society
H.G. Wells, The Fabian Society
and The World State
“Our propaganda is one of permeating –
we urge our members to join the Liberal
and Radical Associations in their district,
or, if they preferred it, the Conservative
Associations – we permeated the party
organization and pulled all the strings
we could lay our hands on with the
upmost adroitness and energy, and we
succeeded so well that in 1888 we
gained the solid advantage of a
Progressive majority full of ideas that
would never have come into their heads
had not the Fabians put them there.”
Bernard Shaw
Ascona, Monte Verita:
The Oligarch’s Summer house
Von Laban’s Modern Dance
Feast of the Sun (Sonnenfest), held on
August 18th, 1917: While bombs are falling
on Europe…
Oligarchs, Freemasons, Anthroposophs,
Theosophs, Hippies and Anarchists are
dancing
"the sole hope is that,
after this purge (...)
instead of our artificial
civilisation's idols,
there would once
again surface positive
instincts"
Theodor Reuss, Madame Blavatsky
and Aleister Crowley
“Do what thou wilt shall be the
whole of the Law.”
Dada
“When I discovered readymades I thought to
discourage aesthetics. In
neo-dada they have taken
my ready-mades and found
aesthetic beauty in them. I
threw the bottle-rack and
the urinal into their faces as
a challenge and now they
admire them for their
aesthetic beauty.”
Marcel Duchamp
“Every product of disgust that is capable of becoming a negation of the family is
Dada;
protest with the fist of one’s whole being in destructive action: Dada
Acquaintance with all the means hitherto rejected by the sexual prudishness of
easy compromise and good manners: Dada
Abolition of logic, dance of those who are incapable of creation: Dada
Every hierarchy and social equation established for values by our valets: Dada
Every object, all objects, feelings and obscurities, every apparition and the
precise shock of parallel lines, are means for the battle of: Dada
The abolition of archaeology: Dada
The abolition of prophets: Dada
The abolition of the future: Dada
The absolute and indisputable belief in every god that is an immediate product of
spontaneity: Dada
Dada, dada, dada; - the roar of contorted pains, the interweaving of contraries
and of all contradictions, freaks and irrelevancies: LIFE”
Surrealism
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into
the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you
can pull the trigger, into the crowd.”
Second Surrealist Manifesto
Automatism and vitality!!!
“The dissolution of Western Classical culture is a
phenomenon that can be understood only against the
background of a social evolution which can end only in
the total collapse of society thousands of years old and
its replacement by a system whose laws are based on
the immediate demands of human vitality…”
- COBRA
Futurism
“We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and
fearlessness… Except in struggle, there is no more beauty. No work
without an aggressive character can be a masterpiece. Poetry must be
conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and
prostrate them before man.
We stand on the last promontories of the centuries!... Why should we
look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of
the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the
absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed. We
will glorify war – the world’s only hygiene – militarism, patriotism, the
destructive gesture of freedom bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for,
and scorn for woman.
We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will
fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.”
Manifesto of the Futurism
After war traumatism
or “Trumanism”
Liberalism, Political Correctness and other fakeries…
I.S.R. and the Frankfurt School
& the C.C.F.
Theodor Adorno: “It is not that
schizophrenia is directly expressed
therein; but the music imprints upon
itself an attitude similar to that of the
mentally ill. The individual brings about
his own disintegration… He imagines
the fulfillment of the promise through
magic, but nonetheless within the realm
of immediate actuality… Its concern is
to dominate schizophrenic traits through
the aesthetic consciousness. In so
doing, it would hope to vindicate
insanity as true health.” in the Philosophy of
Modern Music
Walter Benjamin: “It is wrong to start
with the reasonable, hypothesizing mind
as the basis of the development of
civilization; this is an unfortunate legacy
of Socrates.”
“Truth is the death of intention.”
Hannah Arendt: The first to
introduce Walter Benjamin’s “ideas”
in the United States
Georg Lukacs:
"Who will save us from Western civilization?"
1. Undermine the Judeo-Christian heritage
2. "abolition of culture" (Aufhebung der
Kultur)
Tavistock Institute
Samuel Beckett, Jung
and The Merlin Group
Congress for Cultural Freedom
Honorary Chairman:
Bertrand Russell
John Dewey
Benedetto Croce
Karl Jaspers
Jacques Maritain
The Baby boomers nightmare
1968
1963
1968
1968
"There will be, in the next generation or
so, a pharmacological method of making
people love their servitude, and
producing dictatorship without tears, so
to speak, producing a kind of painless
concentration camp for entire societies,
so that people will in fact have their
liberties taken away from them, but will
rather enjoy it, because they will be
distracted from any desire to rebel
by propaganda or
brainwashing, or
brainwashing enhanced by
pharmacological methods.
And this seems to be the final
revolution.“
Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group,
California Medical School, 1961
May 1968: A New Situation
“…this explosion was
provoked by a few groups in
revolt against modern society,
against consumer society,
against technological society,
whether communist in the
east or capitalist in the west –
groups, moreover, which do
not know what they would put
in its place, but which delight
in negation.”
- De Gaulle, June 1968
For only can a great and noble cause
Arouse humanity's profoundest nature.
In smaller spheres, the mind of man contracts;
But with a nobler purpose, grows the greater.
And as this century is gravely ending,
And even what is real to fable turns,
When we behold huge forces locked in battle
And our portentous goal is hov'ring near,
And war is waged for man's most noble causes,
For domination and for liberty-So now, let art attempt to soar yet higher
Upon the shadow-stage; indeed, she must,
Lest she be put to shame by life's own drama.
Friedrich Schiller